# candor
## English
### Alternative forms

* candour (British, Canada)

### Etymology

From Latin candor (“brightness, whiteness”), from candeō (“I shine”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/
* (US, Canada) IPA: /ˈkæn.dɚ/
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈkæn.də(ɹ)/, [ˈkɛːn.də(ɹ)]
** Audio (General Australian, æ-tensing):(file)
* Rhymes: -ændə(ɹ)

### Noun

candor (usually uncountable, plural candors) (American spelling)
* The state of being sincere and open in speech; honesty in expression. [from c. 1600]
    Synonyms: frankness, honesty, sincerity, parrhesia
    Antonyms: deception, fraud, lie
* Impartiality.
    Synonyms: equity, fairness
* (obsolete) Whiteness; brilliance; purity. [c. 1500–?]
** 1648, Robert Herrick, Hesperides, "To his Booke":Whilst thou didst keep thy Candor undefil'd, Deerly I lov'd thee; as my first-born child […]

#### Usage notes

* The second sense can be used as the abstract noun equivalent of candid, i.e. “the state of being candid”.

#### Derived terms

* candorless
* uncandor

#### Related terms

* candid
* candle

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* Cardon, Conard, Condra, Conrad, Dacron, ancrod, cardon, dacron

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candōrem. First attested in 1839.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [kənˈdo]
* IPA: (Valencia) [kanˈdoɾ]

### Noun

candor m or f (plural candors)
* candor

#### Related terms

* càndid

### Further reading

* “candor” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “candor”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “candor” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “candor” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Latin
### Etymology

From candeō (“to shine, glitter; glow”) +‎ -or.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈkan.dor/, [ˈkän̪d̪ɔr]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈkan.dor/, [ˈkän̪d̪or]

### Noun

candor m (genitive candōris); third declension
* a dazzling or glossy whiteness; clearness, radiance, brightness
* fairness, beauty
* glow, heat
* (of speech) splendor, brilliance
* (of mind or character) frankness, openness, candor, purity

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Related terms

* candefaciō
* candēla
* candēlābrārius
* candēlābrum
* candēns
* candentia
* candeō
* candescō
* candicō
* candidus
* candificō

#### Descendants

* Catalan: candor
* English: candor, candour
* French: candeur
* Italian: candore
* Portuguese: candor
* Romanian: candoare
* Spanish: candor

### References

* “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “candor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* candor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* candor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin candor.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kanˈdoɾ/ [kãn̪ˈd̪oɾ]
* Rhymes: -oɾ
* Syllabification: can‧dor

### Noun

candor m (plural candores)
* candor

#### Derived terms

* candoroso

#### Related terms

* cándido

### Further reading

* “candor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10